CoreCivic, Inc.

Overview

CoreCivic, Inc. is a U.S. government-solutions company operating in the corrections, detention, and community-reentry sectors. Its three segments provide correctional and detention facility management, residential reentry services, and real-estate solutions for government partners. At December 31, 2025, it reported 69 facilities across those segments.[1]

The company describes its mission as providing “high quality, compassionate treatment to all those in our care.” For the year ended December 31, 2025, CoreCivic reported revenue of $2.211 billion. Its website describes a workforce of more than 13,000 employees nationwide.[2] [1]+5

Products & services

CoreCivic Safety provides correctional and detention facility management for government agencies, including facility operations and reentry programming. At year-end 2025, it reported 44 correctional and detention facilities with 67,785 beds of design capacity.[6] Its detention services may include onsite legal and diplomatic services and immigration courts.[7] Subsidiary TransCor America provides government transportation services, including air and ground transfers.[8][9]

CoreCivic Community provides residential reentry and non-residential supervision services. Residential programs include housing, employment preparation, vocational programming, counseling and life-skills support; the company operated 20 residential reentry centers with approximately 4,000 beds at year-end 2025.[10][11] Its non-residential offerings include electronic monitoring, case management and drug and alcohol testing through Recovery Monitoring Solutions.[12]

CoreCivic Properties provides correctional facilities to government partners through development and lease arrangements; its project services can include site planning, financing, construction and maintenance, while a lease-only arrangement leaves facility operations to the government.[13][14] At year-end 2025, the segment owned five correctional properties totaling 7,754 beds of design capacity.[15] In the company’s reported segment net operating income, Safety contributed 91.7% and Properties 3.2%.[6][15] [6]+9

Geographic presence

CoreCivic’s operations are based in the United States. Its 2025 facility schedules show facilities in states including Arizona, California, Colorado and Georgia, as well as Texas, Virginia and Wyoming; these are examples from the schedules, not a complete state inventory. The filings reviewed do not provide a geographic revenue breakdown or employee distribution by state, and do not identify a foreign operating footprint.[16][17]

The company’s corporate address is in Brentwood, Tennessee. Tennessee is also its largest state customer, accounting for 9% of 2025 revenue; this is customer concentration, not a geographic revenue segment.[18][19] The year-end 2025 facility footprint changed after the reporting period: CoreCivic reported sales of the California City and Otay Mesa facilities in California in July 2026, and the Prairie and Midwest facilities in August 2026.[20][21] [16]+5

Business segments

In the six months ended June 30, 2026, CoreCivic reported three segments: CoreCivic Residential, CoreCivic Services, and CoreCivic Properties. Approximate shares of segment revenue before intercompany eliminations were 90.8%, 8.5%, and 0.7%, respectively.[22]

CoreCivic Residential comprises the operating results of correctional, detention, and reentry facilities.[23] CoreCivic Services comprises complementary services provided to the corrections industry, including services through CSP, TransCor, and RMS.[24] CoreCivic Properties comprises properties leased to government agencies.[25]

The FY2025 annual report used different segment names—CoreCivic Safety, CoreCivic Community, and CoreCivic Properties—so the percentages above reflect the newer structure reported for the first half of 2026.[26][22] [22]+4

Company history

Founded in 1983 as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) by Tom Beasley and T. Don Hutto, the company began providing correctional and detention services to government. Its first facility was the Houston Processing Center, which it owned from 1984.[27][28] In 1994, CCA expanded into transportation services by acquiring TransCor.[28]

A merger involving CCA and CCA Prison Realty Trust was completed on January 1, 1999.[29] Damon T. Hininger became CEO in 2009.[30] In 2013, CCA completed its conversion to a real estate investment trust (REIT), and launched its CoreCivic Properties business.[31][32]

In 2016, the company changed its name from Corrections Corporation of America to CoreCivic, reflecting an effort to broaden its identity beyond corrections and detention.[33] It ended its REIT status and became a taxable C corporation effective January 1, 2021.[34] [34]+7

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